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Part III
WRITING SUMMARIES AND REPORTS
Translators have to work with different types of literature, they often use originals in
their everyday work. Sometimes they have to come across the secondary sources of
information. The secondary sources are worked up according to the contents of
scientific information and the aims of using the original literature.
The main secondary sources of foreign literature are:
1) Bibliographical descriptions;
2) Summaries;
3) Reports;
4) Surveys.
Each of the sources has a certain degree of information compression. The shortest
source of the secondary documents is a bibliographical description. It contains the
smallest quantity of information. A bibliographical description is a combination of
pieces of information about the original work or its part which gives a general
impression of the original.
It includes different parts.
The first one is a title of the original. It is written in your own language.
The second one is some information about the author or a group of them.
The next one is a date of publishing. It includes a place of publishing and the name of
publishing house given in a full form.
The last one is a year of publication.
Sometimes there are some additional elements such as the number of figures and
pages.
The main function of making bibliographical descriptions is to notify readers of a
new source of information. Translators of technical literature have to deal with
summaries and reports all the time.
A summary (an annotation) is a brief characteristic of the contents of the original or
the manuscript. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major
points from the original (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event. The
target is to help the audience to get the main idea in a short period of time. We will
take into consideration a summary on the content of scientific literature. There are
different types of summaries. They are classified according to their aims of usage and
their essence. The first type is a reference summary. Such summaries report the
theme of the original, give some facts of it and don’t express any opinion of the
original work. The second type is a summary of recommendation. These summaries
estimate the original and define a suitable class of readers.
E.g. It’s recommended for scientists.
It’s of great interest to technicians.
There is another classification of summaries according to the quantity of the original
contents.
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